The Russian language has only three basic tenses. Present, past and future
There are two aspects in Russian
The imperfective aspect and the perfective aspect.
Aspects are only used in the past and future tense
Aspects are used to indicate if an action was completed successfully or is ongoing
The aspects are:
Imperfective - Incomplete, ongoing, habitual, reversed or repeated actions
Perfective - Actions completed successfully.
There are normally two words for each verb.
One is the imperfective, the other is the perfective
Often the perfective is simply prefixed with “По”
http://www.russianlessons.net/grammar/verbs_aspect.php
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